Past Projects
A Changing View
North Yorkshire County Council has commissioned Rambert to lead an ambitious project with secondary schools in the county. The schools will work with Rambert's dance and music animateurs to create a large-scale performance that will take place in Ripon Cathedral in November 2010. The performance will include a new musical score, created and performed live by young people.
Find Your Talent, North Somerset - Tyntesfield project August 2010
Working in partnership with Find Your Talent and the National Trust, Rambert delivered a site-specific project at Tyntesfield House in North Somerset. Young people aged 11 - 16 were given the opportunity to work in either dance or music and work alongside Rambert Animateurs Deborah Galloway and Natalie Gibbs or Rambert orchestra member Rob Millet. Working intensively for a week the young people created a unique and bespoke performance for this beautiful National Trust property.
Rambert also provided opportunities for the young people's families and visitors to the house to take part in a one-off workshop; this proved very popular and really good fun.
Moving Words April - July 2010
Moving Words was a two-stage project in partnership with Lambeth Arts and Lambeth College. In December 2009 Lambeth Arts commissioned Rootball Productions to facilitate a two-day workshop with a group of young people. During these sessions young people explored archive images of Rambert Dance Company to inform new pieces of writing. A group of young dancers from Lambeth then worked with Rambert Dance Company from April to July to create a new dance piece called Moving Words, which was inspired by poems created by the young people in the first stage of the project.
The young people performed their work alongside performances of the poetry at Lambeth College as part of Big Dance, and Lambeth and Southwark's A-Z of dance.
Wandsworth Primaries project, Big Dance May - July 2010
Working with 30 young people from four Wandsworth-based primary schools, Rambert developed a performance based on Hush by Christopher Bruce. The young people performed their work at Lambeth College to celebrate Big Dance 2010.
Outside World In
Ten primary schools in North Yorkshire are taking part in this project that will involve workshops introducing pupils to contemporary dance alongside CPD sessions for teachers.
Jam Free
Rambert is a partner in Jam Free, a project developed by Sadler's Wells and London Youth Dance. Throughout the 2010/11 academic year, Rambert has worked with students from schools in the London Borough of Hounslow. The students formed a youth dance group and have performed at the Watermans Centre and at the Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler's Wells as part of the Connect Festival.
Discover Darwin Project with Bromley Borough Council
Rambert worked in partnership with the World Heritage Team at Bromley Borough Council to deliver a project raising young people's awareness of Charles Darwin and the proposed World Heritage Site in the borough by studying The Comedy of Change. Rambert worked with seven schools and engaged over 100 young people. Participants attended a Rambert performance at Sadler's Wells on in November 2009 and, for many, this was the first time they had experienced a contemporary dance performance. The project culminated in December when the students performed at Bromley Town Hall to an audience of invited guests, friends and family.
Brent & Ealing Schools Dance project
In 2009 with funding from the John Lyons Charity, Rambert worked with ten schools (primary and secondary) in Brent and Ealing, engaging over 200 young people in high quality dance activities. Rambert animateurs delivered a series of workshops in each school based on The Comedy of Change. The schools in each borough came together for sharing events where the young people showcased the new skills that they had developed. In November 2009 all the students involved in the project came to see Rambert perform at Sadler's Wells. In May 2010 Rambert will be leading INSET sessions for both primary and secondary school teachers.
Aspire (2009)
Rambert led this flagship project that was part of North Yorkshire County Council's Children and Young People's Arts Strategy. Over a one-year period Rambert worked intensively with five secondary schools in North Yorkshire to raise the profile of the arts in education throughout the county. The project culminated with a performance in Ripon Cathedral in May 2009, inspired by the Company's production of Eternal Light.
Flagship 2 (2009)
Rambert worked again with North Yorkshire County Council to deliver a project with a cluster of eight primary schools in Northallerton. This was a cross-arts project focusing on dance and visual art. The project took place from February to July 2009 and ended with a performance event.
Birmingham ‘Gifted and Talented' primary school project (2009)
Rambert led a project with the Hodge Hill cluster of primary schools in Birmingham. The project included a teacher INSET, two week-long residencies and a six-week workshop programme for gifted and talented students. The pupils who took part in the project came to see Rambert perform at the Birmingham Hippodrome in April 2009.
Sport Impact - Dance Project (2009)
For the second year running Rambert worked with Sport Impact; the School Sports Partnership for Isleworth, Hounslow and Feltham. We worked with four primary schools and two secondary schools during the spring and summer terms to create performance pieces based on the Company's repertoire. The project culiminated with a performance in June 2009.